Hundreds of ISP's refuse BIG BROTHER spying

[largejack]

A group of over 300 internet service providers and telecommunications firms is fighting back against the British government's plans to monitor all emails, phone calls and internet activity nationwide.

Full story here:

http://infowars.net/articles/august2009/050809ISPs.htm

[godspeed]

nice...makes a change hearing that...they will still get their way but its a start for people who have got to say the word NO more often...
enough is enough....there's no terrorists but our own governments ....

[dude111]

GOOD its a start!!

Lets hope the effort continues and grows :)

[jesuitsdidit]

http://infowars.net/articles/august2009/050809ISPs.htm


excerpt

The London Internet Exchange (LINX), which represents some 330 companies, including BT, Virgin and Carphone Warehouse, says that the government is misleading the public about the extent to which it plans to monitor their communications and internet activity.

LINX has described the Government's surveillance proposals as an "unwarranted" invasion of people's privacy.

A statement from the group to the Home Office reads:

"We view the description of the Government's proposals as maintaining the capability as disingenuous – the volume of data the Government now proposes we should collect and retain will be unprecedented."

"This is a purely political description that serves only to win consent by hiding the extent of the proposed extension of powers for the state."

The group also stated that the volume of data the government wishes it to retain cannot be held by any known technology at this time.

Last year the government announced its intention to create a massive central database, gathering details on every text sent, e-mail sent, phone call made and website visited by everyone in the UK.

The programme, known as the "Interception Modernisation Programme", would allow spy chiefs at GCHQ, the government’s secret eavesdropping agency, the centre for Signal Intelligence (SIGINT) activities (pictured above), to effectively place a “live tap” on every electronic communication in Britain in the name of preventing terrorism.

Following outcry over the announcement, the government suggested last April that it was scaling down the plans, with then Home Secretary Jacqui Smith stating that there were "absolutely no plans for a single central store" of communications data.

However, as the "climbdown" was celebrated by civil liberties advocates and the plan was "replaced" by new laws requiring ISPs to store details of emails and internet telephony for just 12 months, fresh details emerged indicating the government was implementing a big brother spy system that far outstrips the original public announcement.

The London Times published leaked details of a secret mass internet surveillance project known as "Mastering the Internet" (MTI).

Costing hundreds of millions in public funds, the system is already being implemented by GCHQ with the aid of American defence giant Lockheed Martin and British IT firm Detica, which has close ties to the intelligence agencies.

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[eternal_spirit]

A group of over 300 internet service providers and telecommunications firms is fighting back against the British government's plans to monitor all emails, phone calls and internet activity nationwide.
The article doesn't name them. everyone wants to know if their ISP is on the list :D If they succeed they'll get more business from those who have concern over privacy issues.

[taylor84]

The article doesn't name them. everyone wants to know if their ISP is on the list :D If they succeed they'll get more business from those who have concern over privacy issues.

Thats very true :D